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On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri
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The first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter. The war ended in the spring of 1865. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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First african american to play in the professional baseball league.
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He was killed because he filrted with a white women he was killed by the womens husband and his brother
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She would not give up her seat on the bus
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Nine african americans were let in to the little rock school
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech on equality
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[www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm](<a href='http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm)' >Civil war website</a> it gave federal government the right to end segregation in the South it prohibited segregation in public places. A public place was anywhere that received any form of federal (tax) funding (most places). This stopped lawyers homing in on the private places issue. This act tried to cover every aspect that some lawyer might use
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Civil rights speaker Martin Luther King jr was shot and killed
